He decided not to go home first, turned a small corner, and headed for Zhaozhou and Pennsylvania, two important towns in the southwest. On the 18th, Liu Yingchen, the governor of Zhaozhou, abandoned the city and fled, and Wang Zhenglun, the governor of Guangxi, was killed in battle, and Zhaozhou fell.

At this time, the Great Song Dynasty court had reached the point where it had nothing to do about it. Someone suggested: Nong Zhigao's purpose is to be the festival envoy of Yong, Gui and other 7 states, why not fulfill him in exchange for peace in the world? After the privy deputy envoy Liang Shi resolutely objected, "In this way, can the land of Liangguang still be owned by the imperial court", Renzong asked the prime minister Pang Ji for advice. Pang Ji strongly recommended Di Qing, who had been promoted to deputy privy envoy more than three months ago, to the emperor. This is the only remaining famous general in the northwest battlefield of the Song Dynasty. In the past few years of fighting with the party item Li Yuanhao, it is only a finger count, and now there is only one general who can be called loudly in the Great Song Dynasty. Di Qing himself also took the initiative to ask for help. The wings are right, and the emperor is strong. So on September 28, Di Qing was appointed as the envoy of the Xuanhui South Yuan, the Xuanfu envoy of the North and South Road of Jinghu, and the promotion of the east and west roads of Guangnan to control the thieves and thefts. As is customary, he is also to be assigned a 'prison guard' to be loyal to him. The official Li Dui objected to "sending supervisors in the army, and the main generals are restricted everywhere, which is a malaise since the late Tang Dynasty." Now that you have used Di Qing, you should trust him and don't let him be restricted anymore."

On October 4, the Great Song Dynasty dispatched 5,000 elite cavalry from Shaanxi Province to report to Di Qing in the camp of Guangnan. Some people think that Lingnan is mountainous and not suitable for cavalry combat, but Di Qing disagrees.

On the 5th, Nong Zhigao captured Pennsylvania, and Chen Dongmei, the governor of Zhouzhou, abandoned the city and fled.

On the 7th, the imperial court handed Di Qing 100 pieces of empty name Xuantou (fill in the name to register as an official at the Ministry of War), 100 pieces of Zazi (the voucher for receiving rewards at the Ministry of War), 200 brocade jackets, and 200 gold and silver belts for his reward. On the 8th, in the vertical arch hall in the depths of the Great Song Palace, a legend began: he will leave a reputation that has been praised through the ages, and at the same time cut himself off!

Emperor Renzong personally set up a banquet for Di Qing to see him off. Nearly a hundred years later, the Song Dynasty sent the first general at that time to conquer Lingnan for the second time, and it was the first time since Taizong Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne that a civilian official was not sent to accompany the supervising army. Di Qing has the right to decide all major military and political affairs in the south on his own. This is unprecedented trust. It's an unprecedented pressure. In this regard, Di Qing left such a sentence: "Ministers rise up on their own, and they can't serve the country without fighting." He wished to get hundreds of cavalry, and he would be able to ban the soldiers, and the head of the thieves would be the first to be satisfied, and the Song Dynasty sent 15,000 elite cavalry to follow him through the Lingnan decisive battle. 15,000, this number is not much, but referring to the military strength of the 10 states when Pan Mei pacified the Southern Han Dynasty, it should be said that it is only high, not low. As for the quality. The Great Song Western Army, which had just experienced the tempering of the Western Xia War, became the strongest army of the Northern Song Dynasty from this time on! Until the collapse of the empire, it carried the most regrettable hopes of the Han people! Even the most courageous descendants of the Yue family army of the Song Dynasty are also composed of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty!

On the 12th, Nong Zhigao won the class and returned to Yongzhou. Zhizhou Song Clone abandoned the city and fled.

The strongest army moved south, and Di Qing's order had been transmitted to Liangguang before the army:1 He ordered all the troops to stand by and not to fight, until he arrived with his troops. 2. He ordered Lord Yu Jingyu. Stop that peerless trick or I'll kill you!"

Yu Jing came up with a super "smart" trick! One question: Who is the person Nong Zhigao is most afraid of? Right! Cochin people! Back then, he killed his father and re-educated him through labor, and he has always been a man with his tail between his legs, and he has never dared to pant loudly. So are we not able to unite with the cochins. Would they send troops into the country to help?

Very good! Just do it! Yu Jing transferred a large amount of property to him from the imperial court to Emperor Taizong of the Li Dynasty at that time, and Li Dezheng, whose official position in the Song Dynasty was called "King of Jiaozhi County". So Li Dezheng gathered 50,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry to go to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty in Yongzhou, and at the same time put forward a demand: pay 20,000 yuan in cash first, and at the same time prepare enough grain and grass for 10,000 people to survive near Yongzhou. This has led to the fact that the Jiaozhi people can generously enter the inner part of the Song Dynasty to kill people! Since ancient times, the army of the country will beat rabbits with grass when fighting. Not to mention foreign "friendly neighbor" troops? What's more, the dignified China is in the country, and you have to apply for support to exterminate a group of mountain and forest bandits? Believe it or not, from now on, the Jiaozhi people will be thieves, always thinking of rushing in to burn, kill and loot? This is really driving the wolf into the tiger. Very foolish! Di Qing strictly ordered Yu Jing: Write a letter to the Jiaozhi people immediately and let them get out! In the affairs of the Song Dynasty, they didn't even have the qualifications to know the Dao!

For these two orders, Yu Jing selectively carried out them. On January 6, 1053, he greeted Jiaozhi and asked Li Dezheng to stay honest in the country, and there was nothing to do with them. On the other hand, Di Qing's strict orders for generals not to fight, he had a temporary amnesia. He summoned Chen Shu, the former commander of the Southern Army, and ordered him to go into battle immediately, so as not to let Di Qing steal the first credit!

Chen Shu's mentality has become delicate, Yu Jing's orders have to be listened to, and the soldier's psychology of fighting for merit can't be suppressed, not to mention that the army has already become a happy family, and there has been no military law to deal with it in N years, is it a big deal to disobey General Di's military order? And according to the convention, Lord Yu will also speak when he arrives, Di Qing is a martial artist, how dare he refute the face of civil officials?

After thinking about it, there is no danger. Chen Shu led 8,000 soldiers to Kunlun Pass, but lost in disgrace. When he retreated, he never imagined what would await him!

On the morning of the 8th, Di Qing's army arrived in Pennsylvania. It became the base camp of the Song army. All the officers and troops of the two Guangzhou, including the two civil officials Sun Wei and Yu Jing, rushed to converge!

Di Qing's promotion, the first thing was to deal with Chen Shu. Looking back on history, since the Song Dynasty, to be precise, since Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, he has been quite merciful to the soldiers, which is manifested in the innocence of defeat in battle. Referring to the Battle of Youyan and the defeat of the country during the Northern Expedition of Yongxi, I didn't see anyone cut down, so no one would take Chen Shu's small defeat to heart.

But Di Qing's order was to push the 32 failed generals under Chen Shu out together, and the military law was engaged! Executing 32 people at a time, which in the history of the Song Dynasty only the founding ancestor Zhao Kuangyin has done, almost 100 years, so far away that it is like a legendary story, and suddenly reappeared, which shocked everyone!

Yu Jing stood up, and what he said was very level, "Chen Shu has committed military law, and I also have the crime of moderation", as if he was taking the initiative to admit his mistakes, but in fact, he was pulling the crime up to the civilian clique. What's going on? Do you still want to kill civilian officials?

Everyone watched, and Di Qing's answer was more level, "You are a civilian official, and you are not subject to military law" The implication is that if you are a military general, I will kill you now!

Shi Zai's "Jing Quran bowed", this official who dared to call out the emperor and was famous throughout the country immediately became honest. 32 bloody human heads, in a moment, cast Di Qingtie-like military discipline!

The army was prestigious, but Di Qing's next move was very strange. He remained motionless in Pennsylvania, and his only order was to order the requisition of grain and grass for 10 days. 10 days... Everyone was wondering: what the hell did he want to do? I want to decide the winner within 10 days. Defeat the invincible Nong Zhigao? No! It's not enough to defeat, because Nong Zhigao will escape! At that time, there was no food and grass, so did you want everyone to go hungry and chase people? After thinking about it, everyone came to a conclusion: General Di had other plans, and the war would not break out in a short time!

Such an idea was also generated in the heart of Nong Zhigao in Yongzhou City. Poor Nong Zhigao would not have thought that these 10 days would be the watershed of his fate, and he had the most critical point related to the success or failure of victory or defeat in his hands - Kunlun Pass!

Kunlun Pass is located in the northeast of Yongzhou City and on the east side of Kunlun Mountain. Kunlun Mountain is majestic and steep, the valley is deep and the slope is steep, known as the "southern natural danger". Nearly 900 years later, during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Its importance is unparalleled. At that time, the 5th Army, the only fully mechanized army in China and one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang Army, defeated the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, known as the "Steel Army", and achieved the "Kunlun Pass Victory".

Such a fortress made Di Qing scratch his head, and what made him even more helpless was the consequences of Chen Shu's rash attack last time. The place where Chen Shu was defeated was called Jincheng, which was south of Kunlun Pass, which means that the Song army had crossed Kunlun Pass before Di Qing's arrival. Directly threatened Nong Zhigao's lair! Will this cause Nong Zhigao to be alarmed?

That's why there was nothing but and 10 days of food and grass. Not only the enemy, but even his subordinates did not know what he was going to do. On the 15th Shangyuan Lantern Festival, Di Qing suddenly ordered the whole army to be drawn, and the whole army was divided into 3 parts. Led by him, Sun Wei, and Yu Jing respectively. Depart early in the morning and arrive at Kunlun Pass at dusk. Di Qing once again frequently issued orders: Feast and celebrate the festival! At dawn the next day, the people will go to the Great Tent to hear the order!

The next day, the military flag of General Di Qing was erected in front of the big tent. The generals of the whole army stood in solemn circles and listened to the military orders. But there was no movement for a long time. Until a military academy rushed down from the pass and said to the generals: The general led the front army to cross the Kunlun Pass last night! Now I'm waiting for you to have breakfast at the Quy Nhon shop in Kannan!

deceived Nong Zhigao and got rid of the civil officials who got in the way. Di Qing held the victory firmly in his hands overnight. Nong Zhigao is doomed to defeat!

On the 17th, Quy Nhon shop decisive battle! Nong Zhigao's soldiers each held large shields, javelins, and wore crimson clothes, looking from afar like a piece of flame. They were divided into three battle formations and took the initiative to attack the officers and troops. Di Qing's army is still the front, middle and rear armies. He himself supervised the battle in the former army, and kept the two civilian officials far behind. Sun Wei and Yu Jing stood on a high place, and they clearly saw that the two armies were engaged, and the Song army immediately couldn't support it...

Sun Jie, the former right general of the army, is the general vanguard of the whole army. At the beginning of the battle, the two armies attacked, and he was soon drowned in the sea of people, and his army began to diverge, some of them resisted stubbornly on the open ground of Quy Nhon Pu, and some of them retreated to the high slopes on both sides, which was equivalent to withdrawing from the position! The front army wavered, and the expressions of the two civilian officials behind changed greatly, and it was obvious that another defeat was coming. They began to despair, as former Beijing officials, it is no secret how many families there are in Kaifeng City, even if they can send reinforcements again, it is difficult for the specifications to be higher than this time, is it true that the south of the Yangtze River is going to change the day?

Contrary to them, Di Qing was very bland. Seeing that the troops were on the verge of collapse, he seemed indifferent. Maybe he dreamed of blowing the horn company camp, the wind and snow and the bitter cold of the northwest, right? At that time, hundreds of thousands of people were bloody on the battlefield, how many heroes were used to it, what is the small dispute in front of them!

Di Qing stood up and raised a white flag and waved it at the back of the formation. There was his hidden secret: thousands of fallen cavalry brought from the battlefield in the northwest. It's just a few thousand people, but their role is unimaginable to the civil officials in the battle and Nong Zhigao on the other side. That's about some dazzling, legendary names that are almost miraculous: the Tiger Ben of the Han Dynasty and the Xuanjia of the Tang Dynasty!

These are two all-cavalry arms, and it cannot be said that the prestige of the strong Han and the Tang Dynasty was laid down by them, but in those miraculous battles, they often created the most shocking chapters. The Tiger Ben army is a little old, and the Xuanjia cavalry of the Tang Dynasty broke through the front of the opponent's formation more than once when the Tian Khan was about to fight, and then killed back the way it came! Not only disrupt the opponent's position, but also fundamentally crush the enemy's morale!

Li Shimin's Xuanjia cavalry only has more than a thousand people!

Then Di Qing has brought thousands of fallen cavalry in this battle! Can they do the same? In the decisive battle of Quy Nhon Pu on the same day, the Fanluo cavalry ignored the rebel team entangled with the forward of the Song army, but divided into two teams and went straight into the rear of Nong Zhigao! The speed of the wind is something that Nong Zhigao and these southern aborigines could never dream of! It was not the southwest pony they were good at walking on mountain roads, but the grassland horses in the northwest frontier of the Song Dynasty that competed with the party members! This is one of the reasons why Di Qing wants to sneak across Kunlun Pass at night, you can't ask the war horses on the grassland to climb quickly, just like Nong Zhigao can't deal with the fierce cavalry who stepped on the flat ground battle formation at this time!

The cavalry of the Fan Luo was inserted into the rear of the rebels, and the left army was to the right and the right army was to the left, exchanging positions in the entire battle array, and even disrupted Nong Zhigao's team. Without waiting for the other party to react, they immediately came again, just like Li Shimin's Xuanjia army back then, treating the enemy formation as if it were nothing, interspersing back and forth, killing repeatedly, until Nong Zhigao's army collapsed!

Quy Nhon shop is the end of Nong Chi Ko, and everything is over. The rebels fled in the direction of Yongzhou, and the Song army pursued them all the way. 50 miles later, close to Yongzhou City, up to here, the rebels were beheaded 2,200 people, more than 500 people were captured alive, the traitor military division Huang Shimi, Nong Zhigao's cronies Nong Jianzhong, Nong Zhizhong and other puppet officials 57 people. Nong Zhigao himself was lucky that he escaped into the city of Yongzhou.

Night fell, outside Yongzhou City, the Song army was killed in front of and behind his feet. Di Qing has always remembered his promise: to bring Nong Zhigao's head back to Kaifeng and dedicate it to the emperor. In his mind, there will be a more difficult battle next, Yongzhou is the first important town in the southwest, the city is high and the pool is wide, if the rebels fight to the death in the city, to the level of the king of Beizhou City, it will be a nightmare worse than Kunlun Pass! You can't let the cavalry fly over the city walls, right?

But Bai was worried, just when Di Qing arranged the siege and prepared to attack the fortification, the city of Yongzhou suddenly burst into flames, and the whole city became a sea of fire. Nong Zhi committed suicide in the high fever city! This was the consensus of all officers and soldiers at the first time. But Di Qing doesn't think so, the barbarian rebellion, the most tricky thing is that you can't see people alive or dead, you win once, he hides, and he will toss again afterwards, forever! Can't wait any longer! Di Qing ordered to storm the city at any cost, whether alive or dead, Nong Zhigao must be caught!

Yongzhou City was breached that night, and the city was searched overnight, leaving three records in the history books. 1. Those who surrendered were spared death, and a total of 7,200 threatened civilians were recruited and released back to their villages; 2 Those who resisted were killed, and 5,341 were killed; 3. The corpse of a corpse wearing a golden dragon robe was found.

The last one made all Song Jun happy, no doubt! This corpse is Nong Zhigao! The leader of the rebels was killed, the merits were complete, and he was impeccable, and all Di Qing had to do was write a chapter to report the victory. But he hesitated and said something very unconventional: maybe this is a hoax, this corpse is not necessarily Nong Zhigao?

This is a basin of cold water, which is really incomprehensible. Since ancient times, there has been a lot of water in military merit medals, and everyone knows many things, but they don't say it. Just like this corpse wearing a golden dragon robe, whether it is left by Nong Zhigao to confuse the officials and soldiers or the officials and soldiers casually find a corpse to put on it, the effect is the same: when the work is over, the emperor will get a reward!

But Di Qing denied it, he was challenging the unspoken rules, and even using his own honesty to bring down the honor of the entire army and destroy everyone's salary! (To be continued......)